Word: neveral
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Capote has a harder time with adult motives and emotions; he almost never represents them with success. The life of maturity, as rendered in these stories, is a kind of macabre carnival in which the characters float, entranced, from one sensational rousing to another, and all the sideshows are put on by the powers of darkness. Figures that symbolize evil, dissolution and death are either beautiful or hypnotic; ordinary grownups are scornfully and crudely caricatured. All this involves a good deal of hectic overwriting. Truman Capote's first novel, Other Voices, Other Rooms (TIME, Jan. 26, 1948), won loud...
...visitors took first and second in the next race, the 220-yard freestyle, giving them an 8 to 6 advantage. From then on they were never threatened as they swam to their forty-sixth straight victory...
...acting is superb. Leslie Howard and Wendy Hiller are a comedy team on a par with Coward and Lawrence, and give the Pygmalion Galatea story an hilarious slant the Greeks could never have envisioned...
Stalin, said Niebuhr, has maintained that all communist actions are correct because they are founded on absolute truths derived from science. At the other extreme, Pope Plus XII stated two weeks ago that the actions of the Church had validity because they were based on spiritual and never on worldly considerations...
...used highly dubious methods to try to got rid of the woman who was his opposite in penal philosophy. It might be fairer to the Commissioner to say that he allowed his deputy to use these methods. The activities of Frank Dwyer were continually on the lowest level. He never explained how two Boston newspapers obtained his false and sensational "report" last fall which made the Reformatory look like a riotous Bedlam. His means of gathering "evidence" were repugnant, to put it mildly...